Samantha and I went on a very short/easy nature walk today and combined it with an old hobby of ours – Geocaching! Geocaching is a “sport”, or game, where people hide stuff out in the “wild” and list the GPS coordinates on the official geocaching website. Then, people hunt for the caches using their own GPS equipment, take an item from the cache, add another item to the cache, sign the log book, and [hopefully] pick up trash out of nature on the way. 
We started geocaching way back in 2001 when I was using a Magellan GPS plug-in for my Handspring (now Palm) handheld. That equipment became outdated long ago and we never replaced it with any other GPS device. Since we recently got iPhones (that have built-in GPS), we decided to get back in the game!
There’s a great nature reserve within a mile of our house, and there are several caches hidden within. We took advantage of the absolutely gorgeous weather today to take a short walk (2-2.5 hours) and hunt down a couple of caches.
We’ve included some of our favorite pictures from the walk. We saw a family of deer just as we were beginning our hike, but couldn’t get the camera out in time. There were lots of birds out today, but we didn’t really get to see much other wildlife other than the deer.
We found it!
